A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.

A new federal agreement will give ICE access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s Medicaid enrollees.

An agreement signed this week grants Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to personal data for the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees. Making the data available to ICE — which includes home addresses,